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DAVID HESS, OF PITTSBURG. PEN NSYLVA NIAV.

Letters Patent No. 62,331, dated February 26, 1861.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, DAVID HESS, of Pittsburg, county of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Washing Fluid and Ida hereby declare the following to be a clear and exact description of the mixture: V

To three gallons of soft water I add two and one-half pounds of soda ash, and one-half pound of slaked lime, and boil the some one hour. -Whi1e cooling I add one gill of alcohol, one ounce of spirits of ammonia, and one ounce of dissolved homx. I thenuse the fluid as follows Soak, say six dozen pieces, large and smell, over night, or, if in th hum-j, just wet; wring out, seeping as 1; then put the clothes on to boil in the usual quantity of water, adding a. half a pint of the flui.

This fluid will neither rot, stein, discolor, nor in any respect harm any kind of clothing. .I use in the proportion of one-half pint of the fluid to six dozen articles, making :1 very cheap and usgoful article.

\Yhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of ingredients in the proportions as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.- DAVID HESS.

Witnesses:

JACOB H. WALTER, T. J. SHUTTERLY. 

